As lineatum: Candan & Suludere, 1999b (egg); Gapon & Konstantinov, 2006b (aedeagus); Hinton, 1981 (egg); Lodos, 1986 (egg); Nuamah, 1982 (chrom.); Polivanova, 1956, 1964 (larva); Putshkova, 1961 (egg); Wagner, 1956t (italicum/lineatum tax.). As italicum: Lupoli, 2017 (descr., DNA sequences, tax.).
Distribution: Protić, 2001a (Montenegro Serbia); Ghahari et al., 2014 (Iran); Heckmann et al., 2015 (Crete: lineatum); Baymak & Kıyak, 2022 (Kosovo).